Our closest Alien World

A friend of mine managed to shoot this footage only by aligning iPhone 3GS with the telescope's eyepiece without having any kind of adapter attached. Some occasional blackouts were due to camera slipping off the eyepiece and therefore losing light. The exit pupil was measuring only 0.6mm, so you can wonder how tricky the filming was.

The optics we've used are following:
Konus 1755 newtonian 114/910, f/8, Plossl 10mm+ Barlow 2x.
Video was edited with Cyberlink PowerDirector 9.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Moon
• astrophoto
• Natural satellite
• celestial
• iphone 3gs
• apenninus
• montes apenninus
• tyche crater
• NASA
• space
• extraterrestrial
• telescope